traveling

Phew!  We made it to Gulf Shores.  Let's just say, I don't know how we'd do it without the minivan.  :)

We loaded up on Sunday afternoon with hopes of Blakely going to bed at her usual 6:30...but of course, instead, she didn't go to sleep until 8.  No big deal really, except that this was the beginning of her schedule going wacko.  We arrived in Newport at MawMaw's, and I am pretty sure Blakely loved her instantly because she thought MawMaw was the reason she got to be awake and social at 1am.  I've never seen Blakely smile at someone she didn't know so much.

 Blakely also got to play with her cousin Josie.  Josie's mom asked if she wanted a little brother or sister like Blakely and she said yes.  She was then convinced that Blakely was "hers."  She was pretty upset when I took her.  Josie also couldn't figure out why we wouldn't put Blakely down so she could go play with her.
And I thought getting a good picture of a 5 month old was hard...

Then we headed over to Nanny's the next morning.

After a late bedtime, playtime for an hour at 1am, and getting up an hour early, Blakely's tank was getting close to E, but she did SO good!  Neither Nanny nor Blakely cooperated with the pictures, so this is what we got.  :) 

We then headed to Memphis that afternoon, and I don't have a picture to show for it.  Boo.  Stephen's sister, Anna, has a beautiful white lab/border collie mix named Presley.  My grandparents always got me and my cousins names mixed up.  I never pictured Blakely having this same problem with her dog-cousin, but she did.  :)  But I guess it's better than being accused of being a boy when you have a bow on your head.  Poor girl. 

We then loaded up at 4:30am (yes, you read that correctly...) Wednesday morning to head to Gulf Shores.  Blakely did SO good.  We stopped for lunch in Lucedale, Mississippi at this place:

 We ate outside on the patio, cause it was nice, but mainly because we had no idea how Blakely would do.  It was a good thing we were outside thanks to this:

 In case you can't tell, Blakely lost a little bit of her lunch during our lunch.  We had a great trip, and now we are trying to get her adjusted to her new home!